News: IKAROS: Japan Solar Sail Unfurls

NowPublic has an article mentioning: "... add comment Japanese 'Space Yacht' Deployed: First of Its Kind The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has unfurled the first-ever solar sail. The IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun) has a super-thin 14mx14m sail that is thinner than a strand of human hair. ..."

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